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Michael678 
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 Posted: May 04 2015 at 13:58 |
it was actually while playing Ratchet & Clank (the original) on the PS2 that i used to have. i usually play albums while actual gameplay takes place. however it wasn't till a couple of weeks (maybe a month?) later that i fully understood the album itself. a f**king masterpiece, ladies and gentlemen, a f**king masterpiece. 
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Posted: May 04 2015 at 13:25 |
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March 1st 1973. 
1st time I heard it played live was October 21st 1972. |
Cool!!! Did they play it live on tour before releasing the album?
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Posted: May 04 2015 at 13:22 |
I don't know that I have any sentimental attachment to the album, other than it's one of those that I have been playing for over half my life, simply because I like the album very much. I don't have any emotional connection to any of the songs.....ie did not name any of my kids after the band, album or songs  .
I have many memories of falling asleep to many albums as a teen in my room with headphones on, I do believe its a brilliant album and probably will play it monthly for the rest of my life....Time will tell.
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Posted: May 04 2015 at 12:07 |
This is probably the first prog album, with the exception of Rush, that I got to know really well. It was the late 1980s (high school) for me, even though my dad owned a copy from soon after it was released.
Again, probably too late for a sentimental attachment. Still love Time and Money, Brain Damage and Eclipse.
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More heavy prog, please!
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Padraic
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Posted: May 04 2015 at 11:45 |
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Early 90s I guess. I think my gen and younger probably won't have as much sentimental attachment.
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Dean
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Posted: May 04 2015 at 11:17 |
March 1st 1973.
1st time I heard it played live was October 21st 1972.
Edited by Dean - May 04 2015 at 11:23
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What?
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bhikkhu
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Posted: May 04 2015 at 11:15 |
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Not sure when I first heard it in entirety but I think it was around 1977 or 1978 (I know I was in Jr. High) when I really got into it as an album.
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Posted: May 04 2015 at 08:54 |
I was living by myself in a studio apt back then in 1973 at college at IU....probably heard it first at my friend Dan's house just down the block from where I lived. We spent a lot of time that year 'smoking' and listening to the albums that came out and of course the earlier ones. I really can't recall any specific memories about that album then but they say if you can recall those days then you weren't having enough fun.
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I bought it in 1979 when I was 15. A boy at school told me that Pink Floyd were a great band. At this time I had never even heard of them. I remember that in a Biology lesson we watched a science programme on the television and the theme music to the programme was part of the intro to 'Time' (the bit just after all of the alarm clocks go off). The boy said,'That's Pink Floyd'. To me it sounded so atmospheric and different, that it made me determined to get the album. I had to go a couple of weeks without eating any lunch as I kept the money that my mother had given me to buy school dinner tickets. When I bought the album for about £3 (from a small record shop in Ludlow), I sat in the dining room at home (strangely this is where we kept our small Pye record player - I wouldn't have my own record player until I had left school and could afford one) and listened to the album all the way through with rapt attention. This was one of those life changing moments for me. It made me realise that there was a different world of music beyond the chart fodder on the radio. It started me on a journey of musical exploration that has been one of the most satisfying avenues in my life. So 'Dark Side of the Moon' was a hugely important album for me. The first listen was something of a milestone in my life.
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Haiku
Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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Posted: May 03 2015 at 23:14 |
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I think the first time I heard it in it's entirety was when I was just on my computer listening to music. I can't remember when I first heard any of the songs though.
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Posted: May 03 2015 at 23:12 |
In the womb, 1985
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There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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Posted: May 03 2015 at 22:58 |
Sitting here tonight spinning a bunch of vinyl and I pulled this one out and put it in the "on deck circle", it's up next up.  I started thinking about the very first time I heard this album, I believe it was 1974 and I was about 10yrs old, over at an uncle's house and he played it. Being that young nothing hit me musically really but the sounds are what caught my ears, spacey and strange is what I remember. I think about a year later I received my first copy and had to play it on my dad's stereo as I did not have my own then  .
Most of my memories of playing this album are a few years later when I finally had my own system and headphones, and yes falling asleep many times waking up to the tick-tick-tick of the needle in the run out groove.
I have no idea how many times I have spun this album since 1974, quickly thinking I would have to guess close to 2,000 times in the past 40yrs.
Can you remember specifically your very first time hearing this album in its entirety?
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